Quotes About Progress

What is truly interesting is not the fact that people have power, but how they use that power. Do they make their world better, stronger, gentler, more varied, more interesting, more humane?

Ésta es mi filosofía del entrenamiento: un deportista debería hacer, en el momento adecuado, la mínima cantidad de entrenamiento específico que proporciona una mejora continua.

4º MANDAMIENTO: ENTRENAR CON UN PLAN

6º MANDAMIENTO: PLAN PARA ALCANZAR TU MÁXIMO

7º MANDAMIENTO: MEJORAR LOS PUNTOS DÉBILES

check of how training went that day. Review your workouts. Find one thing you did well. It does not need to be a big deal.

Continuing to train with high intensity results in roughly half as much decline as training with long, slow distance only.

Ciertos estudios han revelado que entrenar de tres a cinco veces por semana proporciona la mayor mejora en relación con el tiempo invertido, y que los entrenamientos adicionales dan unos beneficios menores proporcionalmente.

Start doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The elevator to Health, Happiness, and Success is "out of order." You'll have to use the stairs, one step at a time,

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Don't waste any time mourning—organize!

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

You know, we might've fucked up the planet, sucking out all the oil, melting the ice caps, allowing ska music to flourish, but we made Coca-Cola, so goddamn it, people weren't all bad.

Maturity is not something that happens all at once. It is not a border between two countries where once you cross the invisible line, you are on the new soil of adulthood, speaking the foreign tongue of grown-ups. It is more like a distant broadcast, and you are driving toward it, and sometimes you can barely make it out through the hiss of static while other times the reception momentarily clears and you can pick up the signal with perfect clarity.

Don't waste time mourning. Organize

All you had to see was the bumper sticker on their Prius—VOTING IS LIKE DRIVING: R GOES BACKWARD, D GOES FORWARD—to know we were going to be all right.

If you Google "How do I write a book?" you'll get a million hits, but here's the dirty secret: It's just math. It's not even hard math—it's first-grade addition. Write three pages a day, every day. In a hundred days, you'll have three hundred pages. Type "The End." Done.

Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.

VOTING IS LIKE DRIVING: R GOES BACKWARD, D GOES FORWARD

The road will make me better. The road always does.

Who says we're smart?' she asked, in a tone of playful contempt. 'We never even mastered fire. We thought we did, but you see now, it has mastered us.

For all we know, we might've already slipped into the future without noticing it.

We'll have to take it slow from here on out," the Fireman said. He had that one wrong.